OBJECTIVES To ascertain the level and quality of audit activity among junior doctors, their attitudes to audit, and their views on its educational value. DESIGN Postal questionnaire survey in April 1991. SETTING Yorkshire region. SUBJECTS All 610 registrars and senior registrars recorded as employed in the region. MAIN MEASURES Grade, current specialty, details of last audit participate...

BACKGROUND Burnout and intolerance of uncertainty have been linked to low job satisfaction and lower quality patient care. While resilience is related to these concepts, no study has examined these three concepts in a cohort of doctors. The objective of this study was to measure resilience, burnout, compassion satisfaction, personal meaning in patient care and intolerance of uncertainty in Aust...

BACKGROUND Patients with medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) commonly present in general practice. They often experience significant disability and have difficulty accessing appropriate care. Many feel frustrated and helpless. Doctors also describe feeling frustrated and helpless when managing these patients. These shared negative feelings can have a detrimental effect on the therapeutic relat...

INTRODUCTION Fatigue is the most common undifferentiated problem presenting in general practice. Previous studies have shown that this presentation leads to multiple investigations. There is no published literature describing the management of patients with fatigue by general practice (GP) registrars. AIM To document the investigation-ordering behaviour of GP registrars in managing patients w...

In 1995 and 1996, 9% of registrars in the West of Scotland failed to demonstrate minimum competence in their audit project for summative assessment. Adverse trainer advice was implicated. This study set out to assess trainers' and registrars' confidence with audit teaching, the methods of teaching audit, and the perceived needs of both groups.

BACKGROUND There has been little research into poetry-based medical education. Few studies consider learners' perceptions in depth. OBJECTIVE To explore general practice registrars' (GPRs) perceptions of two poetry-based sessions. METHODS GPRs in one general practice vocational training scheme experienced two poetry sessions. In one, the facilitator selected poems; in the other, poems were ...

BACKGROUND Experienced trainers know that individual registrars react very differently to identical learning experiences generated during the year in practice. This divergence reflects differences in registrars' learning styles. Only one study of United Kingdom (UK) general practitioners' learning styles has been undertaken. Learning style theory predicts that matching learning preference with ...

Medical registrars have been described as the 'workhorses' of National Health Service hospitals, being at the interface of acute and chronic health services. They are expected to demonstrate effective leadership skills. There are concerns from the Royal College of Physicians that medical registrars are being overwhelmed and unsupported by organisations, and are struggling in their ability to pr...

INTRODUCTION It is widely accepted that medical undergraduate and postgraduate education should address issues related to human diversity. Despite the growth of guidelines and training resources, little is known about primary healthcare professionals' perceptions about their work with patients from diverse communities. OBJECTIVE This research explored GP Registrars' views of their learning ne...